Jordan's memoir worth reading

8:12 PM,
Feb. 8, 2014

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State Sen. David Jordan grew up in the Delta during segregation. He recounts in his new memoir how he is one of the few people still alive who attended the sensational trial of the two white men who lynched teenager Emmett Till in 1955.

Jordan played a pivotal role in civil rights in the Deep South. He is known for his efforts to get black citizens the right to vote. The activist, a former science teacher, became a state senator in 1993.

Jordan, D-Greenwood, will sign copies of his memoir: "David L. Jordan: From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, A Memoir" (University Press of ...